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PAUL B. KANTOR School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08903 PAUL B. KANTOR School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Phone: (732) 932-1359, x8216 Email: [email protected] Fax: (732) 932-1504 A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION AB, 1959 (Summa cum laude). Columbia University. Physics and Mathematics. PhD, 1963. Princeton University. Theoretical Physics. B. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Director, Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries. 1998-present. Professor, Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. 1991-present. Director, Alexandria Project Laboratory . 1991-present. President and Chief Scientist, Tantalus Inc. 1976-present. Associate Professor, School of Library and Information, Case-Western Reserve University (1972-1976). Assistant-Associate Prof. Physics (CWRU (1967-1972). Visiting Asst. Prof. Physics, SUNY Stony Brook (1965-1967). Research Associate, Brookhaven Nat. Labs (1963-1965). Significant Professional and/or University Affiliations: Editor-in-chief Information Retrieval, Kluwer Academic Press. 1998. Member Editorial Board: JASIS, Information Processing and Management. Member, Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR) Affiliate, High Performance Computing in Design (Comp. Sci.) Member: Am. Stat Assn; IEEE; ASIS; Am Phys Soc; SPIE; ACM and numerous scientific and professional organizations. Chair: Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries. C. PUBLICATIONS (i) Five Most Closely Related “Pheromonic Representations of User Quests by Digital Structures”. Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, David Neu (1999). To appear in Proceedings of the 1999 Annual conference of the American Society for Information Science. “The Information Quest: A Dynamic Model of User's Information Needs”. Paul B. Kantor, Benjamin Melamed, Endre Boros, Vladimir Menkov (1999). To appear in Proceedings of the 1999 Annual conference of the American Society for Information Science. “Models of the Behavior of People Searching the Internet: a Petri Net Approach”. (1999). Ragnar Nordlie and Paul B. Kantor. To appear in Proceedings of the 1999 Annual conference of the American Society for Information Science. "An experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling on Reconfigurable Multicomputer Architectures" with Woods, WA, Moser, HD, and Frieder, O. Journal of Computer Science and Engineering 10(4)244-254. (Oct. 1995). [*Note:This paper was one of several selected as best papers in the PDCS conference] "Counterexamples in distributed detection" Cherikh, M.; Kantor, P.B. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory vol.38, no.1 p. 162-5 ( Jan. 1992). (ii) Five Other Significant (1994). "Information Retrieval Techniques."Annual Review of Information Science. M. Williams (ed.), pp. 53-90. (chapter in book) (1993). "The adaptive network library interface: A historical overview and interim report." Library Hi-Tech, vol. 11(3), issue 43, pp. 81-92. (article in a refereed journal) (1986) "Information retrieval in the design of expert systems." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, pp109-118, 1986. (1986) "Three studies of cost and services at academic libraries," Advances in Library Administration and Organization, V5p221-285, 1986. (1986) "Is hilbert space too large?" Physical Review Letters V56(14)pp1437-1440, April 7, 1986 D. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Special Areas of Interest: The networked information environment and the value of information. Distributed decision systems; economics of information. Especially effectiveness, performance measurement, planning and decision tools aplab-030 \nsfpreproposal_1054072\pbk_personal_bio.rtf 01-Oct-10 1:15 PM p. 1 for information systems. Honors Received: American Society for Information Science and Technology Research Award (2001); Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), (2000); Fulbright Research Fellowship. Oslo Norway. (Spring 2000). Best Paper Award, Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing. (1995). American Society of Information Science, Best JASIS paper award, 1989 (with A. Chamis, T. Saracevic and D. Trivisson). Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar, Online Center for Library Computing (OCLC) (1987 July-December). Distinguished Service Award, Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 1986. Total Number of Graduate Students advised as Thesis Director: 8. E. COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS (i)Collaborators in Last Four Years Stephen Jose Hanson, Rutgers University; Stephen R. Baker, UMDNJ; Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University; Sven Dickinson, Rutgers University; Benjamin Martin Bly, Rutgers University;Lawrence A. Shepp, Rutgers University; Endre Boros, Rutgers University, Benjamin Melamed, Rutgers University, Bracha Shapira, Ben-Gurion University; Willard Zangwill, University of Chicago; Nancy Kranich, New York University; Carol Mandel, New York University; Mary Summerfield, University of Chicago Press; Ellen Vorhees, NIST; Ragnar Nordlie, Oslo University College, Jung Jin Lee, Soong Sil University, Korea; Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University; Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University, Kwong-Bor Ng, Queens College (CUNY); Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNI University. (ii) Dissertation Adviser: Sam B. Treiman, Princeton University (deceased). Post-Doctoral Supervisor: Gian-Carlo Wick (deceased). (iii) Students supervised or directed (Last 5 years) Kennedy, Lynn, Rutgers University; Kim, Kyunghye, Rutgers University; Neu, D. Rutgers; University; Ng, Kwong Bor, Queens College (CUNY); Schattman, J, Rutgers University; Shim, Wonsik, Florida State University; Zhao S-Y, Ford Foundation; Zhao, D. Rutgers University; Koray Atasoy, Rutgers University,Myung Ho Kim, Rutgers University, Vladimir Menkov, Rutgers University, Qin Shi, Rutgers University; Insuk Oh, Rutgers University; Ying Sun, Rutgers University; Ibraev, Ulukbek, Rutgers University (iv) Postdocs supervised Vladimir Menkov, Myung Ho Kim, Bracha Shapira aplab-030 \nsfpreproposal_1054072\pbk_personal_bio.rtf 01-Oct-10 1:15 PM p. 2 Stephen José Hanson Associate Professor of Psychology Chair Psychology Deparment Co-Director RUMBA Laboratories Department of Psychology Rutgers University Newark, NJ 07120 A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION 1975 B.S. Arizona State University 1977 M.A. Arizona State University 1980 Ph.D. Arizona State University Postdoctoral Training 1979-1980 Zoology Department, Arizona State University B. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1996- Department Chair, Psychology Department Rutgers University-Newark 1991- Department Head & Research Fellow, Learning Systems Department SIEMENS Corporate Reseach 1985- Visiting Fellow and Research Collaborator, Psychology Department, Princeton University, Member of Cognitive Science Laboratory 1989-1991 Group Leader, Learning and Knowledge Acquisition Research SIEMENS Corporate Research 1984-1989 Member of Technical Staff, Artificial Intelligence and Information Science Research Group, Bell Communications Research 1982-1984 Member of Technical Staff, Human Factors Department, Bell Laboratories 1983-1985 Visiting Lecturer, Psychology Department, Princeton University 1980-1982 Assistant Professor, Psychology Department Indiana University C. PUBLICATIONS Hanson, S. J. & Rosinski R. R., (1985), Programmer perceptions of COBOL tools and productivity Communications of the ACM, pgs. 180-190. Hanson S. J. & Kegl J. (1987), PARSNIP: A connectionist network that learns natural language grammar from exposure to natural language sentences, Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Seattle. Hanson, S. J. & Bauer M., (1989), Conceptual Clustering, Categorization, and Polymorphy, Machine Learning Journal, 3:343-372. Hanson S. J. & Burr, D. J., (1990), What Connectionist Models Learn: Toward a theory of representation in Connectionist Networks, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 471-518. Hanson S. J., Olson, C., (1990), Connectionist Modeling and Brain Function: The Developing Interface. MIT Press/Bradford, 396pp. Hanson, S. J., Cowan, J. & Giles, L., (1993), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems: Natural and Synthetic-5, Morgan Kaufmann, 1047 pp. Hanson, S. J., Petsche, T., Kearns, M. & Rivest, R. (1994), Computational Learning Theory and Natural Learning Systems, Vol 2, MIT Press, Bradford. Schwanke, R. & Hanson, S. J. (1995), Using Neural Networks to Modularize Software Architectures, Machine Learning Journal. Hanson, C. & Hanson S. J. (1996), Development of Schemata During Event Parsing: Neisser's Perceptual Cycle as a Recurrent Connectionist Network, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Hanson, S. J.(1999), Connectionist Neuroscience. In "What is Cognitive Science?", E. Lepore, Z. Pylyshyn (Eds), BlackWells Murthy,R J., Martin Bly, B., Deutch, J, and Hanson, S.J.(1999), Identification of fMRI Waveforms, Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Washington DC Japkowicz, N., Hanson, S.J. & Gluck, M. (2000). Nonlinear Autoassociation is not equivalent to PCA. Neural Computation. Negishi, M., Hanson, S.J. & Martin Bly, B. (2001) A Stationarity Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingTime Series From Motor and Auditory Tasks., Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, New York City, NY. D. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Honors & Awards Small Grant Program from NSF -- "Multivariate Analysis of Drosophilia Courtship" 1981. ONR-NRAD 150$k-- Helicopter Gearbox Failure Prediction with Neural Networks. Siemens Divisions-- 2.1M$/year --Internal Funding for Siemens R&D 5 Internal Projects McDonnell-Pew Foundation Cognitive Neuroscience Advisory Board Member, 1989-2000 NIPS
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